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*In this issue... The Feast of your Writing*
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*The Feast of your Writing*
*by Bruce L. Cook*
Authors - thinking of your readers - compare your manuscript to a
delicious feast
composed of various delicacies.
The reader glimpses the whole serving and begins with a favorite, progressing
through exiting meats, veggies, and delicacies, fully expecting satisfaction at
completion. The author is host and the reader a guest who wants to feel
closure, even if the act of eating was sheer gluttony. The guest expects to
thank the host, the author, at the completion of such a pleasant read.
Now imagine a writer who feels secure with a major publisher. No
longer needing to
serve publisher or reader, this one indelicately pulls one or more of the
delicacies away after the reader has started. The reader feels jilted. Why did
the writer fail to resolve the conflict or otherwise offer a satisfactory
completion? Is there another volume ahead in which closure will be reached?
If not, the reader feels shocked and wonders whether the writer is teasing,
perhaps the writer simply felt bored with such a writing task.
Amazingly, this seems to have happened with a prominent best-selling
book which became the
basis of a PBS Masterpiece Theater TV series. Despite this seeming success, the
reader has to be satisfied with just part of the meal. Yet, even vaunted
reviewers, so eager to just document the plot, neglected to notice the omission
of at least one chapter at the end of the book.
Thus was the case with *The Rector’s Wife* by Joanna Trollope, a descendant of
Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope.
In the final chapter, the reader sees the Rector’s wife talking to the
gravestone
of her late husband, who has just suffered death as a result of being told she
was having an affair with their neighbor. (True, she was having an affair, but
with Jonathan, another man - not her neighbor.) She insists that her late
husband can hear her.
But nowhere does the story deal with the outcome of her
intense relationship
with Jonathan, which has been extensively documented through the novel. The
reader is left to guess whether she ever saw the former lover again. This is
unfair to the reader. I feel it is a result of a writer so confident with being
published that the reader has become just an appendage to her imperfect craft.
Author, as a warning, never neglect your reader in this way. Always resolve the
conflicts you create. To a conscientious author, one who cares about the
reader, *The Rector’s Wife’s* omission would be intolerable.
In this case I would assume that the TV version added content to resolve the
impasse. But a book needs integrity within itself. It cannot and should not be
dependent upon external productions to finish its work.
And incidentally, when you offer a feast to a friend, never pull a delicacy away
half-eaten.
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Publishing Emerging Writers
December 2016 (No. 1701)
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